Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Rars. Mlseellsu,.


When water from a stream Is turn
"a upon grass lands it is not adviS'-
able to keep it running continually;
butthe water should be Turned on &c
part at a time, leaving the other
aart a few DAYS TO dry. It is better
TO wates copionsly for "a hours than
to keep q constant driz1le With alttle
water, which viii not go so lar, aud
spoils the grass as tar as It goes
Shrinkage of cream depends largely
upon the rapidity with which it is
raised. Ii warm milk. say at ninety
degrees. is plunged into ice cold water,
the cream elobules will rise IN a few
hours. One hundred inches OF cream
raised under these circumstances will
shrink Ia to Is per cent. more than
cream raised nom milk cooled slowly
and allowed to stand at a tempera-
.tnre of sixty degrees. II the first mem
TONED conditions occur IN SIMMER,
the above mentioned shrinkage viii
occur. II the latter ia winter, none
viii occur.
Some recently compiled dairy sta
tistics may prove interesting: About
50, 600, oo0, 900 is invested in the
dairy business OF the United States;
Is, 600, 900 cows supply the milk, and
it takes 60, oo0, 900 acres OF land to
iced them and 700, ooomen and / .0oo-
600 horses to attend to them and the
milk they produce. These COWS and
horses consume annually 10000, 900
tons of hay, 10000, 600 bushels OF
eornmeal and oatmeal, 2T5,00O,0 600
bushels OF oats and various other
grains, the total cost OF which Is
about 500, 600, 900 pei year, while
the hired help costs Si6S, 000, 600.
The yearly return for this Investment
is 6, $50, 900 gallons OF milk, which at
an average OF twelve cents per gallon,
would bring $50, ooo, 600.
Ia summering ham a lady CORE
spondeut of the Michigan Farmer has
had excellent results from the follow
ing practice, which gives the added
advantage of placing the meat always
within easy and convenient reach:
i'Pack the slices very firmly into a
stone Jar without any cooking, then
cover with abouttwo inches OF melt ed
lard. When a slice is taken out soine
lard will adhere to ii; Ehelt this and
return it to the jar hot; then Try Or
hroil the ham and it viii be very fresh
and nice"
Iconsider the first two months on
pasture as worth as much to the
stock as the succeeding four, and my
easons are that at this season there
are few flies and ~tormenting insects,
no excessive heat, an abundant sup
ply OF pure water and fresh, sweet
grass, and / base this estimate on
long experience IN grazing, and the
grain cattle vii make during May and
June. Now, perhaps, Claneing at the
title OF this article, you say, what has
this to do with "Hlnts for Winter"
Just this, that the profit of this best
grazing season of the year depe ds on
whether Your cattle are well inter,
ed or not, for in one case they will
have been kept thrifty and gaining IN
flesh all winter, and in the other they
will not only have lost flesh which
must be recained. but viii also have
taken on an unthrifty habIt.-W. T.
Brown, IN Farmers Review
A Buffalo dispatch says: Unusual
quantities of black walnut lumber
have been passing east from points in
Ohio, Indiana and Iowa for some
weeks past. The shipments have at
tracted attention among lumber deal
ers, and it is learned that a company
of English capitalists, with whom a
wealthy combination in Indianapolis
is cooperating, have been for a year
more quietly getting possession of all
the black walnut timber 1t has been
possible to buy, and are now shipping
it to England. Tbs writer's inform
ant, who was a buyer for those par
ties. says that the Traveller on the rail-
roads through the walnut belts viii
see at nearly every important station
portable steam saw mills at work
early and late. ripping up black wal
nut logs into plRnks OF convenient
size for shipment.
Chicago alone, '"Tbe Michigan Farm
sr" asserts, sells more so-calied "Pure
Vermont Maple Sugar" than the en-
tire output of the Green Mountain
state. 1t is made of glucose aud cane
syrup, the necessary flavor being sup
Piled from a preparation OF hickory
bark